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Dist:0.3km north<br/>New affordable residential apartment development in Buckingham Avenue for keyworkers and Slough residents, their website is here http://www.chg.org.uk/homes/prioryheights/index2.html . The "Slough Trading Estate" sign marks the western end of the estate.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>One way traffic only (in this direction) is allowed through this skewed bridge which takes the road under the main line railway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The busy A4 Bath Road has industrial units to its north and residential areas to its south. This section of the Bath Road has been turned into a huge car showroom, having been taken over on both sides by Trade Sales Slough.
©Darren Smith
Dist:0.8km east<br/>On the south side of Edinburgh Avenue.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.8km north<br/>The tower belongs to St George's church, which is hidden behind the new housing. That's a new development called Venus Close.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.8km east<br/>This was until recently the private power station for Slough Trading Estate. This has been supplying heat and power to the estate since 1920. Originally coal fired, it has now gone over to predominantly biomass (wood) firing. There is also some natural gas and heavy fuel oil in the mix. The modern building on the right houses a wood briquetting plant. The tall building in front of the chimney houses one of the modern wood fired plants including a Peter Brotherhood steam turbine with roof mounted air-cooled condenser. The tall building beyond the chimney houses two fluidised bed boilers that originally burnt coal but now burn wood. Older buildings house further older boilers (gas fired) and the four remaining steam turbines (one Siemens, one Brotherhood and two by C A Parsons. There is also a John Brown gas turbine of 23 MW. The two cooling towers are also part of the plant although there is also pass-out steam at 14 bar to other users on the estate. It was recently acquired by Scottish & Southern, presumably to improve their CO2 emissions as it is biomass fired.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.8km east<br/>The nearer chimney is refractory lined as it receives hot gas turbine exhaust. The turbine can be operated open cycle or combined cycle. The tall light building houses the "fibre-fuel" (www.fibrefuel.co.uk) fired installation and the large pipe up the end is the exhaust from a big Peter Brotherhood turbine that is on its way to an air cooled roof mounted condenser. This is a fascinating plant with many unique features and is well worth a visit if you are in to that sort of thing. Interior photos are not for Geograph but are available on request.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.8km east<br/>The tall building on the right is the boiler house holding two fluidised bed water tube boilers that are about 36m tall and run at 87 bar. The view from the top is spectacular. This power station has developed over nearly 90 years and is crammed in to a very small space compared to its former CEGB brethren.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.9km east<br/>The two cooling towers on the north side of Edinburgh Avenue, with just a wisp of steam coming from the left one.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.9km east<br/>Slough was the first privately owned power station and an early innovator in CHP (Combined Heat and Power) supplying steam to heat factories all over the industrial estate. It now has gas fluidized bed reactors and can use waste paper and plastic collected on the estate as a fuel.
©bruce
Dist:0.9km east<br/>These large cooling chimneys, situated in Slough Trading Estate, are visible for miles around.
©Darren Smith
Dist:0.9km north<br/>A sliver of countryside slices through the western end of the Britwell estate.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:1.1km east<br/>This building, otherwise known as Crossbow House, 40 Liverpool Road, is situated at the heart of Slough Trading Estate (which incidentally is the largest trading estate in single ownership in Europe). This building is famous for featuring in the opening sequences and some of the filming for popular BBC comedy "The Office".
©Darren Smith
Dist:1.2km southeast<br/>This narrow road bridge provides a road link over the railway between two industrial estates, but it is controlled by lights, and can be a traffic bottleneck. There is little room for pedestrians to cross safely either.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.2km south<br/>The only ancient village green left within the boundaries of Slough. This photo shows the adjacent duck pond and two of the three public houses which surround the green.
©Darren Smith

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